I heard once from someone from Mudd who graduated 2 years ago that he thought that the pure sciences and the humanities/social sciences are all taught well, but the engineering classes are not. Aside from that, Harvey Mudd seems to me an intense school that (to me) is academically in the math and sciences superior to most of the Ivys and other LACs. It is similar to Caltech and maybe MIT, but with less prestige and less resources for research.